# Principal Software Engineer

Position Summary: Swiftly is searching for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture of our ads and martech platform: the systems that author retail media campaigns, generate creatives and serve ads to shoppers through The Trade Desk. The platform spans a Go ad server built for low-latency bid requests, Python services on Azure Functions for campaign authoring and tenant configuration, Kotlin/Quarkus services we are carving apart, and a shared PostgreSQL schema managed as code. This role will set technical direction across these teams, lead a tenant-by-tenant migration off legacy services without downtime, and stay hands-on in the hardest code. Responsibilities Include: Work with and provide direction to the teams that build Swiftly's ads and martech platform, including the Go ad server, campaign authoring, the tenant and capability registry, creative generation and personalized-ad services Architect, code and maintain large scale distributed systems with complex requirements Lead the incremental migration of campaign authoring and The Trade Desk write path off a Kotlin/Quarkus service, one retailer at a time, using per-tenant ownership switches, database write guards

- **Id**: 4053189
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/swiftly-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T19:40:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T03:00:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4322
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Public Transport, Smart Grid

## Company

- **Id**: 4224
- **Name**: Swiftly
- **Domain**: goswift.ly
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/swiftly>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

## Salary

- **Min**: 220000
- **Max**: 228000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 228000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CodeQL** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Kustomize** — Optional: no
- **Loki** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Entra ID** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Pyroscope** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Quarkus** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQLAlchemy** — Optional: no
- **SQLModel** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Testcontainers** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T03:00:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 7
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 228000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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